>The UK allocated £61.4B to defence tech investment in 2025, maintaining one of Europe’s largest defence budgets with a focus on naval and air upgrades, cyber capabilities and nuclear deterrence.
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>A new report by Tracxn titled “European Defence Tech Report 2025: Is Europe’s Defence Tech Entering its Most Compelling Phase for Investors?” shows that the spending equates to 2.3% of the UK’s GDP and is topped in Europe only by Germany, which spent £66.4B over the same period.
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>More than two-thirds of all equity funding raised in the defence tech ecosystem is concentrated in its three most funded startups, which includes the UK’s ALL.SPACE at £151m.
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>The report also found that the top three funded cities are Munich in Germany with £1.5B equity funding, followed by Reading in the UK with £163m, and Helsinki in Finland with £112m. Collectively, they represent more than 80% of total equity funding raised by the ecosystem.
Lonely-Entry-7206 on
Honestly this report still shows UK ,despite the bemoaning over the lack of, shows we are definitely still investing alot in our defense still and only second to Germany.
Thebritishlion on
How is it that our spending is so high, yet the size of the military/readiness/capabilities seems so small/poor?
Where does the money go?
Infamous_Berry626 on
And yet we have the per capita GDP of the poorest US state Mississippi
One_Anteater_9234 on
1000£ from every man woman and child in the country
klepto_entropoid on
Before anyone says that is an awful lot of money (and it is) the annual NHS budget is ~200bn and goes up 5-10bn a year every year thanks to the rapidly ageing population.
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Amael on
[WhereDoesItAllGo](https://wheredoesitallgo.org/) will help to visualise this in relation to all the other spending, it’s a lot but also not as much as it seems.
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>The UK allocated £61.4B to defence tech investment in 2025, maintaining one of Europe’s largest defence budgets with a focus on naval and air upgrades, cyber capabilities and nuclear deterrence.
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>A new report by Tracxn titled “European Defence Tech Report 2025: Is Europe’s Defence Tech Entering its Most Compelling Phase for Investors?” shows that the spending equates to 2.3% of the UK’s GDP and is topped in Europe only by Germany, which spent £66.4B over the same period.
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>More than two-thirds of all equity funding raised in the defence tech ecosystem is concentrated in its three most funded startups, which includes the UK’s ALL.SPACE at £151m.
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>The report also found that the top three funded cities are Munich in Germany with £1.5B equity funding, followed by Reading in the UK with £163m, and Helsinki in Finland with £112m. Collectively, they represent more than 80% of total equity funding raised by the ecosystem.
Honestly this report still shows UK ,despite the bemoaning over the lack of, shows we are definitely still investing alot in our defense still and only second to Germany.
How is it that our spending is so high, yet the size of the military/readiness/capabilities seems so small/poor?
Where does the money go?
And yet we have the per capita GDP of the poorest US state Mississippi
1000£ from every man woman and child in the country
Before anyone says that is an awful lot of money (and it is) the annual NHS budget is ~200bn and goes up 5-10bn a year every year thanks to the rapidly ageing population.
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[WhereDoesItAllGo](https://wheredoesitallgo.org/) will help to visualise this in relation to all the other spending, it’s a lot but also not as much as it seems.